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# 2, Coastal Color, Coping, FAD (Fiber Art Dames), Label Blocks, Moon Fall, Parts

Winter workings

January 29, 2016 admin

Hello,

The week has been a full one with lots of activates. This work is by a high school student and a part of the Scholastic Art show now going on at Onondaga Community Collage. I was a judge a few weeks ago and I judged animation and film. I went to see the other works that made it into the show. There is lots of wonderful work, and it is well worth the effort to go and see it. The FAB group also meant this week

. Nancy has added two more boarders on her quilt. I love how she mixes so many different patterns in her work. She is also so very good at making all her points. A characteristic that I admire as I find that process so very frustrating. I like a challenge so much more than a repeat activity. So I decided to be a part of the Cancer Project. This is the cancer mask that I will be altering in the next weeks. I have not decided how or where I will go with this one yet, but I really think it is fascinating. Another thing I did this week was take four quilts off to be a part of the Cabin Fever Quilt show that hangs in Betts Branch Library for the month of February. I also hung a show of 15 pieces of my work at the Briar Patch in Ithaca New York yesterday. I am sorry that I did not take my camera so there are no pictures of that. Because of all of our snow and the wonderful stash of dye that I inherited from Ethel, I attempted some snow dyeing this week. I had to call on the knowledge of my friend Angela to get myself going on this project . The photo is a shot of the first batch under plastic starting to melt. I learned from this first one to cut way down on the amount of dye one adds to the snow as the navy blue took over and there is no yellow at all on the final piece. The process takes a long time- about 24 hours for all the snow to melt because I am doing it in the basement were the heat is low and I may be packing too much snow in the bucket. Anyway the second batch looks like the yellow and green will remain a part of the color. And I did not add any navy to it. Everything is washing out now with a third bucket starting to melt. Look for images next week. Another thing I started this week was my 6X6 entries. That is for the Rochester Art fundraiser. I decided to use this paper as the base for a paper quilts for this project.

Progress Report: Coastal Color I

I really enjoyed working on these felted base works. I ended up adding a fabric back and sleeve to this one to finish it. Thanks again to the gals in QuIGs for there suggestions on this project.Mixing the machine work and adding yarns and fabrics to the surface sure made the process a joy for me. I have one more in the grouping to complete; I am excited and I have not even started adding anything to the felted surface yet.

Coastal Color II This felted work is stretched over stretcher bars with a batting in between. Again the QuIGs were the source for this solution to the finishing problem. This solution creates quite a different feel for the finished work. But again I got to do the thing I love the most with the machine drawing and the fiber additions. I just love to build up the surface.

Moon Fall I have enjoyed working on this project as the world out side has become one of grays, white and black. No thread build up here but lots of fun free motion work. I used some of the same thick thread techniques that I developed with the leaf and Autumn quilts I did earlier this fall. I mostly followed an edge when I could to make the quilting patterns. I appliqued the moon on top without any quilting of its own so it would float above the surface a bit. It seems to do that to me.

Coping Quilting away on this work was a nice contrast to all the free motion work I was doing this week. All the quilting here is strait lines with stops and turns it it. I first made a series of rectangles in silver and purples threads. Then I used black to make more quilting that filled in the open ares and added a little interest to the surface. It does the job I think although I do not find it overly exciting in the end. I do like the colors and that is a good thing as I have the second half of the original to deal with next. This one does have quite a different feel I think. I need to look and think for a while on this one too.

New Work I am tying to mix some of my altered fabrics with commercial ones here. The some of commercial ones are Ethel’s and the flowers are from my friend Tanya.

Parts is Parts I continue to stitch down the camera parts onto the surface here. What with the finishing of the first three quilts this week, I have not done a lot of hand work on this project.

Label Block # 37 The labels got their share of hand work though. I am looking forward to my February closet clean out as I think I will be able to add some more labels to my collection when I do that project.

Keep Creating,

Carol

I could not resist adding one more Scholastic entry to this blog.

Autumn Collection, Label Blocks, Near Indian Creek, William's Quilt

Mild Days

December 17, 2015 admin

Hello-

I like most of folks in the east am enjoying the wonderful weather we are having. Blue sky is always a welcome sight and the mild temps do not hurt either.

I came across this quote this week.

There are no mistakes. What happens during the process of making something is sacred and organic. Vicki Noble.

I like this idea and always used and thought a similar idea when I work. I just see errors as a small challenge to my way forward. It is reassuring to find reinforcements for ones ideas.

There was a FAB meeting this week. Judy is creating her one of her wool tied quilts for her daughter. Big and bright is her motto. I am finished with Scrubs for my grand daughter. They are cheerful as she asked.

Progress Report: Near Indian Creek This piece is 16″ X 20″ and stretch on a blank canvas. I m trying to think of different ways to present my work and this is one of them. There is a lot I do not know about this process.

It is finally complete after many starts and stops getting it stretched. I need to thank Andrea for explaining how to cut away the excess fabric at the corners for a smooth fold over. Then she also suggested that I put fabric on the back instead of paper and I really like that solution too. I have all the materials and I am set for three more rock based pieces in this little series. I learned a lot doing work this way and look forward to next ones.

William’s Quilt I am working away on this project and I can see the end of this step. I only need to assemble three more rows and the top will be done. Then it is on to the back of the project.

Autumn Collection The back ground is all laid out and stitched down for this project. Now I will begin to add the leaves. I am so lucky to have my friends looking out for me. In this case Patty gave me some great old scarves that are just the perfect color to use as a part of the leaf clutter under this tree.

Double Rock This is not the official title for this work. Just a working one. I am trying to make two pieces that work together so I am sewing both of them at the same time and I will cut them apart when I am done. These will also be stretched pieces. The only draw back is the big size problem when I am doing the free motion work. But I think it will pay off in the end.

Label Block # 31 One more done in this process. I For me this is very calming work at the end of the day. Thanks too to the folks who have passed more labels on to me.

Keep Creating

Carol

Incisions, Label Blocks, Machine Drawing

Fall- Indian Summer

October 8, 2015 admin 2 Comments

Hello,

We are in Indian Summer now. Many trees are changing color over the course of a single day. My favorite time of year with its cold nights and worm days. I have truly enjoyed my walks. This week was a busy one. My first adventure was a trip down to see the opening of the Rock Garden show. I knew many artists in this one including Susan( pictured with her work), Carolyn and Cheri. It was a strong show with lots of variety.

Then on the week end I took a class at the Schweinfurth entitled “ Surface Designs” with Pat Pauly. I learned a lot about dyeing as I paid much more attention this time because I now have Ethel’s stash of dyes to play with. This is my wall at the end of the first day. I have lots of friends in this class and that made it epically wonderful. This shot is of Regina pulling a print.

Susan was in the class and so was Victoria. This shot is of her wall at noon on the second day.

Annette and Regina were the first ones to sort there work out of the first days wash out of the dyed fabric. We all enjoyed our selves and

laughed a lot.

This is a shot of some of my fabric after my the wash out when I got home. I now have a new stash of stuff to play with.

Then on Tuesday this week I had meetings of both the QuIG’s and the Diva groups. I get a great deal of stimulation from both of those groups and find the hour drive back from Ithaca after 9:00 flies as I think about and process my day.

Progress Report: Incisions This quilt is based on a collage that I did in David’s class at QBL last summer. It is 29 ” wide by 43″ long. I ended up turning my quilt upside down to make it work for me- and there were lots of alterations on the design as I went along. But I like the process enough that I will use it again.This is the collage I started from.

I quilted the cream areas in pebble patterns and in the browns I outlined the light areas. I feel like this quilt was a real growth experience for me. I got a lot of help form the QuIGS on how to make the quilt lie flat. They were very instructive at the Sept Meeting when I showed it. I was so far off that I was ready to toss the whole thing. Now I feel differently.

Project 15 I have just started doing the hand quilting on this project. I am going to mostly make that a reflective pattern of the pieces.

New Work I am ready to begin a new rock based piece. The photo is from a long ago trip to the California shore that I took with Eric. I have again just selected a small portion of the photo for this quilt. So I think I will do several based on the same image.

Label Block 22 The process goes on for this project. I realized this week I will need 120 blocks to have enough for a quilt so I will be at this for over two year span…. I almost wish I had not figured that out.

Keep Being Creative

Carol

Blossoms and Butterflies, FAD (Fiber Art Dames), Incisions, Label Blocks

Fall Feeling

October 1, 2015 admin 1 Comment

Hello,

This is the time of year when we are reminded of Natures Bounty. This picture is of the grapes on Susan’s front walk. I love the light filtering through.

From my point of view it seems like I have not set down to take stock in a long time. I have been very active. The Friday after the last post I went and visited my friend Susan and we had a day that was mostly organization. That is a task that needs to be taken on more frequently than I do it. Susan with her eye always on the dates of her migrations to and from Florida, has a thing to teach me in that area.Even her desk – pictured here- is far more structured than mine.

Next on the list for me was a Creative Play Day at Varna. I spent the morning making silk paper in preparation for my workshop and after lunch I played with the 3-D pen the grand kids had given me. I have come to the conclusion that one could make nice light weight ear rings. I wish I could wear them. My next event was the teaching of the Silk Paper Workshop. Alice did some wonderful dye painting on here silk. Cris worked away capturing different objects in her silk. She put in paper, leaves and flower petals to some fine results. I experimented with using leaves as “molds” for thin layers of silk.( see photo above)

Then on Thursday Cris and I did some silk screen printing. I have two wonderful new pieces of fabric to use as a result. I drove home on that afternoon. Mother Nature was just starting her fall display and I had to stop more than once to take pictures.

The Friday after that adventure I went south to help again with the clean out of Ethel’s house. Elise has been so generous with her Mother’s quilting materials- that I feel surrounded by Ethel’s love. I have also been charged with the completion of her last quilt. I put all the pieces together this week and will now create a back form some of her fabrics. The hand quilting will begin some time soon.

The last event was this week and it was a FAB meeting. Judy had completed the top of a new wool quilt. She plans to tie it. Sally got some feed back from all of us about how she could finish up a project from a old QBL class and Nancy wanted help with a new top she is considering making. We had fun.

Progress Report: Blossoms and Butterflies This is the second in the butterfly series. I sure enjoyed doing all the free motion work that this one entailed. The flowers are all drawn in with pebble quilting for their centers. I think with this quilt I made the Butterflies too strong. I will try for a better light dark balance on the next one.

Incisions I am almost done with the free motion work on this quilt. I did the pebble quilting in the white areas and let the designs on the printed fabric tell me how to quilt the darker areas.

Silk Paper Still Life At the creative play day I made some silk flowers. They are pinned now and I am ready to begin hand work on them. I do have about four other hand work projects going now so they will not get any attention for a while.

15 Challenge I now have the 15” block assembled. I plan to hand quilt this project too.

Label Block 21 I did some thinking and realized I will need at least 80 blocks of this size to create a bed quilt. I guess I will be at this process awhile.

Keep Creating

Carol

PS: One last shot from the trip. I enjoy how the stream bottom and the sky is reflected in this clear brook.

Blossoms and Butterflies, Incisions, Label Blocks, Scrap Happy Quilts

Dealing

September 17, 2015 admin 1 Comment

Ethel Whittamore's work — Ethel Whittamore’s work

Hello,

We all have losses in our lives. Some are small like losing a thimble and other are bigger like a death. I suffered a big one with the death of my quilting buddy Ethel. I am so very fortunate that her daughter, Elise, has included me in her end of life events and in doing so, the loss, although deep, is becoming one of bitter sweetness. I have been tasked with the completion of Ethel’s last top to become a quilt for the Quilting by the Lake raffle for the Scholarship fund. What a gracious honor. I plan to finish the assemblage and then hand quilt it in the style Ehtel her self would have done. Elise has included me in the dismantling of Ethel’s studio and in the distribution of her many quilting treasures too. We spent a lovely day last Friday sorting and boxing up her fabrics. My studio is bursting with the boxes and I feel very comforted by there presents. I will not keep most of the material, but pass a lot onto her many other quilting friends with the hope that it makes them feel her spirit around them as I do. I did most of my dyeing with Ethel’s guidance and now I have all of her materials to continue the process. I am thankful. Ethel was also the person who got me interested in silk paper making. That is something that I continue to explore and I even teach the process. This week I did two sheets in preparation for a work shop on that topic that I will be teaching next week. There will be no post because I will be at the Pink House Art Gallery in Saranac Lake presenting at that time.

There was a FAB meeting here this week too. With lots of thought and with great care I am posting a quilt by one of the group members Okay. Nancy is quit proud of this quilt and I think she should be. She has a design sense that I so admire. I have been a big part of this quilt too as the thin dark blue line near the outside boarder is one she and I over dyed earlier this summer. She now has to decide how she wants to quilt this colorful work.

Progress Report: Blossoms and Butterflies This work is moving along nicely now. It is the second in the butterfly series. The background is completed now and I will now build the butterflies to add on top.

Incisions This work now has a title and I feel good about it. I have started the free motion quilting on this piece and think it will be finished soon. The red is the felt/batting so this part of the image will not be part of the final work.

Scrap Happy I finished the second twin Scrap Happy quilt on Tuesday and it went with the first to its new home. I can’t seem to leave well enough alone – so I made the rows from the left overs from this project and several others. The shoe box that I keep leftover squares in, is still overflowing so there will be at least two more quilts of this style in the near future.

Creative Assistants All these guys got arms, hair and backs this week. Now they only need there final paint embellishments and they will be done. I am ready to switch back to making more faces on the next batch. That is what I do during TV football games.

Fifteen Challenge The Diva group is fifteen years old and we are having a big show next summer. The group challenge is to create a 15” square quit that has fifteen in the work in some way. I have designed a square that has a roman numeral –XV in it. I made the block and because there is lots of bias in the shapes it got greatly distorted when I assembled it on the machine. So I am re doing it and making the blocks by hand. This is one fourth of the final piece.

Label Blocks This is # 20 in the label block line up. I can see this process still has weeks to go as there are still lots of labels in my box. I am glad to take contributions from any source for this project too.

Keep Creating

Carol

Foundations Series, Label Blocks, Machine Drawing, Mill Site Melody, Rifts, Sunny Seas

Mistake

September 4, 2015 admin

Hello-
I take a great deal of joy in celebrating the work of friends. That has been my intent with the images I have shown in the past here on the blog. But even good intentions can create disasterous effects and such was true here. My posting went viral. I do not know how this happened and Goggle could not give a clear answer either. The unknown and unintended consequence of my actions caused the denial of a powerful potential opportunity for the friend. The out come for me was a badly brushed friendship and a feeling of shame. She as forgiven me, but I have not forgiven myself fully for this action. I ma truly sorry. I will no longer be posting images of anyone else’s work on my sight. Please learn form my mistake.

Progress Report:

This little quilt came together very quickly when I got started. I used a lot of silk paperon this one to represent the sea weed and the flow patterns of the water.

Mill Site Melody

I have been enjoying the free motion work on this piece this week. The dis charged fabric was done by Randy and the print was created by Jean. I used very heavy thread around the fern print to help it show up.

The idea for the free motion wheat heads came form Randy’s fabric.

Rift’s I am still not sure what direction I want this quilt to hang so if it looks different- that many be the reason. I keep adding layers of stitching yarn and fabric to this one and it will ” tell me “when there is enough.

Diva 15 Block The Diva’s will be celebrating there 15th year together with a show next summer. For that event we are designing a block that is 15″ X 15″ and has some aspect of fifteen in the work. This is my first run at that challenge.

Label Blocks: I have finally got the label blocks back on track. These two represent blocks 20 an 21.

Keep Creating

Carol

Forest Floor, Mill Site Melody, Rifts, Scrap Happy Quilts

Summer Actions

August 26, 2015 admin 1 Comment

Hello,

These beautiful Morning Glories are from Susan’s garden. I had an unexpected invite to go to Quilt National last week and that happened on Thursday and Friday. That was the reason there was no post. It was a glorious experience and I have a ton of new thoughts and ideas about work.

There were wonderful works by many folks I have seen before as well as lots of new comers. I purchased the book, and I treated myself to a poster with Elizabeth Bush’s quilt on it. It was a good experience.

I did not get busy and write on Wed before we departed because I went to Susan’s with Noel and we had a play day. We did a mimic of the work form David’s class and I have a lot more paper to play with now. It was a pleasant day and we all enjoyed ourselves.

I also spent a day both weeks making silk paper. I have used some of it on quilts already. But my main reason for making the paper is I want to teach a class were the we make the paper and then use some of it to make book jackets.

Progress Report:Rifts

This is the new rock piece that I am working on. It too is another close up of the shore of Arcadia. I am struggling with direction on this one and keep pinning it up with different orientations. Looking is the only answer for me. It is also were I used some of the silk paper that I mentioned earlier.

The process is still in it’s early stages so there will be lots more build up of the surface and changes.

Mill Site Melody I stared this piece at QBL and I am to the quilting stage now. I have had a good time doing reflective quilting in this section and making additional machine drawing in other areas.

These wheat like shapes are based on the images I see in the discharged print image.

Forest Floor I continue to do hand work on this piece. The stitches are beginning to build up with more remaining to be added.

Scrap Happy I finished this quilt this week. It will be a gift to help comfort my friend Tanya who had to have her horse put down. She is quite sad about that and I hope this red and black quilt with give her warmth and comfort.

New Work I took David’s suggestion and selected one of my collages as a starting point for a new work.

The collage only has two pieces of paper in it- but I could not limit myself to just two fabrics. I have added more and as I build I can see I am making alternations in the design due mostly to scale I think. It is a different approach and I like that.

There is no shot of a finished block this week either because I am not done with one. I am off to spend tomorrow playing with another friend working on Gelli plates so I am writing this a day ahead. Summer is just a busy time.

Keep Creating

Carol

Color- Spring Onion, Colors- Hands, Colors- Imagination, Dance, Diva Meetings, FAD (Fiber Art Dames), Insect ology, Machine Drawing, Quilt Exploration Group (QuEGs)

Visual Effects

June 4, 2015 admin 1 Comment

Hello,

I have spent my week with many other creative people and in doing so my world is richer. Yesterday, while coming home from a wonderful performance of West Side Story with my friend Barb and I, we were enjoying the beautiful landscapes of up state New York. In doing so we talked at length about how we are so eager to feast our eyes on the world around us and that we easy find and celebrate the wonders of our world with joy and delight. That is a job all artists do – with our works we celebrate our own joy and in doing so hopefully open others eyes to the beauty all around all of us. Our acts of “ Valuing the Visual” with each work or art, hopefully makes others value the world as well.

I went to a FAB meeting this week. Nancy displayed her dyed fabrics from the week before. Now she is ready to move on to the final assembly of here quilt. Patti work on one of her mini weaving projects during the meeting.

I then went to the QuEG’s meeting . Sue Ellen is working away on a Tree series and this is one of her pieces in that series. She had several others pinned up in her studio. It will be fun to watch the series get completed. We seem to have a rash of baby related works going on in the group at the moment. This is green and purple one is Linda’s new baby quilt.

Here are two more by another expectant grandmother.

Angela is doing hand work on this felted work that she cut up. We gave her lots of ideas about how to expand and play with this idea. That is one of the great things about a group- the expanded brain power is wonderful and one can pick and choose from the ideas folks toss out for your benefit. Liz had a wonderful little bowl carrier project that she shared with us. This soft hot pad “fits” around a bowl while it is in the micro wave and makes for easy removal with out burning the fingers. Corrine is busy doing paper piecing with very small log cabin blocks.

I stopped and picked up Susan on my way to the Diva meeting. This shot is of her table in her studio. She is really expanding the Flag Challenge in a great way. I am enjoying the contrast of our two styles and will talk more about that in the future. At Diva’s we saw this new work. Anne did a wonderful job with the quilting on this project. The front is wonderful too- but I do not have a shot of that. This is picture of Lori’s layered embroidery work. There is foiling and organza in this as well.

Alice is working on smaller units to sell for Art Trail and this stain glass type pieces is one of her works for that endeavor. I like her color choices. Regina was my guest at the meeting and she showed us her felted butterfly. This was only one of three she had completed sense I had seen her the Wed. before.

Meeting all three groups in one day is exhausting and I will work not to have that happen again any time soon. One can have too much of a good thing.

Progress Report Insect Ology

I am surprised by how much people like this work. The colors are natural, the subject matter is some what off potting- but I get lots of positive feed. I like it too, but not nearly as much as my viewers do. I will make another companion stencil and see if working two together also gets this type of response. I really enjoyed quilting all the leaves on the surface the most when it came to completing this work.

Flag- Dance This flag is really the last of the official series – I think. Both Susan and I did the same image in black and white to start this project. I held this flag until the end to complete. It seemed like a way of closing off. the process for me. But after seeing what Susan is doing I am not so sure.

Flags- Assorted Colors Being unsure of were we were going Susan and I started by using up her paper paste before we did anything else. The flag challenge grew out of that play . I did these colored flags last so when I got to these I was feeling more confident about the use of words and adding objects to the surfaces. For this one, Imagination, I embossed the saying on metal and stitched it to the surface.

The second one- Hands – got its darker additions in the form of painted wonder under that I ironed to the surface.

The paper paste was thinning down by the time we got to the last this last flag so it is paler. I added the oil crayons to is for the onion.

It is a copy of the stencil that Susan made on Wed of my visit when we went to drawing class.

The studio is calling as I have not spent a lot of time there this week.

Keep Creating

Carol

Continue, Insect ology, Label Blocks, Machine Drawing, Pock Marked

Work Space

May 28, 2015 admin

Hello,

Summer is upon us now with all its wonders. I love how fast a beautifully the flowers are opening and changing the landscape. This Poppy is from Regina’s garden were I was visiting yesterday. I enjoy her work an find her approach exciting. One of the things she is working on is printing on fabric with a linoleum block and then quilting into the image. She added the red thread to emphasize the blossoms. She has asked a friend to enlarge the image and print it on the fabric for her so there will be even more of this image in her future work.

I also spent time with Nancy this week doing some dye painting. She could not find the color she wanted for one of her works and decided to paint to get what she wants. I am proud of her.

Through this door is the studio. I think it is very important to have a place of your own to work. I have a wonderful converted garage space for my studio. I has had several lives before it became my space. I served as a bedroom for two different boarders, my daughter and young grand kids and then for Eric and myself. Now it is my refuge for creative work. It has a wonderful bay window in the front and a door out side on the east wall. A long four foot deep closet in the back with book shelves is were I store most of my fabrics, yarns and papers as well as my felting machine. I have filled the space with my stuff and it suits me well. This first shot is from the door looking toward the front of the house. My desk/ sit down work space is a U in this far corner. I enjoy using my Grandmother Ruth’s sewing table as a work space for my own machine. That is one leg of the U and the desk its self is the other two sides.

I spend most of my time working in this area of the room..By walking strait across the room from the door and looking back this shot shows the view. Here is my cutting table with a small ironing board on the top at the far end. The pin wall is also along that wall. Next to that I have a book case that is full of projects in progress as I like to keep materials all together until I have completed an idea. This view is achieved when one walks diagonally from the point of view of the second shot into corner I just described and look back. ( the end of the sewing machine is on the lower right ) Here one can see the book shelves. The have lots of quit books and reference materials as well as my tin container collection. They serve as storage for sequins, oils sticks, markers, special fabric bits and small items that I find inspirational. In the corner the plastic drawer unit is full of beads, paints, buttons, lace trims and other attachments. My guest chair, also shown, often serves as a staging area for hand work that will be done outside the studio. I feel fournate to have such a wonderful work area and I enjoy it almost daily.

Progress Report ; Modeled Surface I used lots of surface altering techniques on this work. This red purple section is from the Deconstructed Screen Printing class from the fall.

The light blue is from some dyeing I did with the QuEGs group last spring. This dark blue is from a day I spent playing with paint in my own studio. I was doing tape resist on the fabric and then running the roller over it. The left side of this images shows printing on an old table cloth and the right side is a double print of a silk screen. It was a fun challenge to use only fabrics that I had altered myself.

Insect OlogyI am still working on the free motion part of this work. I so liked the shapes of these leaves that I used them several places in the quilt to fill in the sections. I like finding inspiration from the fabric for my free motion work.

Flag-Continue I only finished one flag this week. This one is Susan’s design and her quote too. I just added the flowers. Now I only have five to finish before Tue next week so that project will get lots of my attention.

New Work True to the way I work I have pulled out a new patch of fabric and pinned it to the wall. I always like to audition fabrics before I use them.

Label Block

Two more are now completed.

Keep Creating

Carol

Consideration, Find Ecstasy, Hand Bags, Insect ology, Minion, Pock Marked, Rejoice, Uncategorized

Travel Log

May 21, 2015 admin

Hello,

I am home from a wonderful trip and I still seem to be flying along with lots of new experiences. Maine was/is beautiful as it too awakens to spring. I enjoyed the tulips in Barb’s yard and took lots of pictures. There are so many wonderful colors. We visited two artists with studios on this trip. The first was Elizabeth Busch’s place. She is working on a new commission for the state capital building in Augusta. This is a shot of the models. She is building in her wonderful weaving on bird netting.She carefully explained how she used her photos of different parts of Maine to build the landscape that she wanted for the project. She refers to them often as she works with the weaving to keep the colors close to the natural look she is building. She has a large collection of printed and painted strips of plastic to choose from when she is working. Elizabeth sometime weaves as many as four strips into one section to create the color she wants for rocks, trees, water and other natural elements. She is working on all three panels at one time so they will flow into one another as they spin from the three eye beams in the lobby. The job needs to be completed by September so she will have a busy summer.

The second Studio was that of Nanci Kohn She is a photographer and paper Mache’ artist. She too was very willing to talk about her process and work. I really love this song bird that is covered in sheet music.

We then stopped and looked at a welded sculpture of an Osprey on a bridge on our way to Portland. It was an enjoyable and stimulating trip as travel always seems to be for me.

Tuesday the FAB group meant here. Patti had nearly completed this happy little wall hanging. I like how she used buttons and beads for the eyes of the kittens.

Judy was busy working on a new sweater. She is doing hand embroidery stitched flowers on it now to add more interest. I like the soft colors she is using.

Progress Report: Paper Quilt- Consideration

I am done working on the surface of this project. I want to add a sleeve in a different manner than I have with previouse paper quilts,because it is so wide. I want to make the slat removable for this one. The papers that I started with were from a Gelli print play day last fall. I have enjoyed doing all the stitching on this one and adding textures

I added painted and melted tyveck for that texture. I used both sides so some areas have the bubble up and some have the bubble down.

Hand Bag I made a new hand bag out of some of the wonderful fabric that Regina gave me a few weeks ago. It is time to switch to a summer color so I put the old one( it was browns and blacks) away.

Place Mats When I was sorting through the material for the hand bag I pulled fabric for place mats too. These are the newly finished batch. I have stacks two more sets setting on the cutting table.

Pock Marked I am working on the free motion portion of the quilting on this project. It is going slowly as I am trying to find lines to follow for all the stitching and it is very complex in some areas.

Insect Ology I am to the free motion quilting on this project too. It is a much different process than Pock Marked- much more a reflective process. It is good for me to switch from one type of free motion work to the other.

Flag – Rejoice For the experiment on this flag I drew on the surface with magic markers and then stayed it with rubbing Alcohol. I hung it on the line so it would run down as it dried. Not all the makers ran because they were different types of markers. The “Sharpies” rand the most. The quote is” Rejoice in the common place.” from an unknown source.

Flag- Find Ecstasy This flag does not have much in the way of experimentation. But when I found this quote l knew I had to use it. It is from Emily Dickenson: “Find ecstasy in life – the mere sense of living in joy is enough.

More Minions I am now finished with the last four minions. I will pass them along to friends who need a lift as I come across them.

I hope summer is on everyone’s door step.

Keep Creating

Carol

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Category Archives: Machine Drawing

Winter workings

Mild Days

Fall- Indian Summer

Fall Feeling

Dealing

Mistake

Summer Actions

Visual Effects

Work Space

Travel Log

Creative Fiber Collage Artist Carol Boyer